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No one’s saying the technology isn’t interesting just at the article is rubbish.

Who wrote that headline anyway, the headline should have been scientists have created sub-zero solid state cooling, but the writer somewhat arbitrarily decided that this was about environmentalism which this has got nothing to do with.

The scientists are not even making the claim that this is a necessarily viable technology, it’s just a thing that they’ve managed to achieve.

I’m surprised the article writer didn’t do the usual thing that science “journalists” tend to do, which is claim that it kills cancer. So we should be thankful for small mercies.

I’m asking what saurce you have that says that they are more efficient than refrigeration systems because everything I find says the opposite.

Refrigeration already is cheap. The problem a lot of places have is not an inability to afford a refrigerator it’s no energy to power the refrigerator. This technology does not into address that problem. In fact it probably worsens it because this technology is less efficient in terms of power consumption.

Also I would love to live in the world where you live because over here food costs money. It isn’t free.

That’s reflection of external heat not removal of internal heat. Refrigeration requires effort and therefore energy.

Did a damn lot more than old trumpy pants did. His excuse for not fighting was essentially that he had some bad bones, and for some bizarre reason the military accepted that answer.

Been from a rich family he would have probably been shipped to some logistics base and never seen combat anyway.

What sources?

The article doesn’t list any. All it says is they reached a cooling temperature of -12°C, but has no information on the energy used to achieve that.

Now we come to the section of the show we would really like everyone to switch off from, where somebody with an actual qualification and experience in the subject matter explains how we’ve spent the last 45 minutes effectively lying to you.

Well of course, first and foremost he likes their small hands. It makes him feel more naturally proportioned.

I don’t think they thought this one through. You absolutely don’t want to be putting republicans on stage with comedians that’s a really bad idea.

Most of these shows would love to get a republican on so they could ask them very simple questions that they know they won’t be able to answer.

I don’t think shape change materials are all that efficient. The problem being is you still need some mechanism to compress the material again, which obviously uses energy. As you say their main advantage is that they don’t use traditional refrigerants. But the trade-off for that is that they are mechanically more complicated and probably for any given amount of cooling will require more electricity.

You can trade those off with renewable energy sources of course so it may still be worth it but technically they are worse efficiency than traditional vacuum pumps.

That’s thermodynamically impossible but ok.

When you cool something you take heat energy out of it you have to do something with that heat energy you can’t just delete it.

The law isn’t though.

In order to break a law you must actually have broken the law.

What I don’t get is why people blur out personal information on public posts. You’re not doing anything I can find the original post by just googling the entire sentence. All you’re doing is making discovery harder.

What job would I ever apply for that I didn’t have at least a ballpark for compensation to begin with?

I’m not going to go through the entire interview process only to then find out that they are offering half of what I’m looking for.

Sure I understand the company may not be able to give an exact price because what they’re prepared to offer will depend on what the other candidates are looking for and my experience level. But they should at least be able to tell me what the minimum and maximum values are, and they should at least be able to tell me approximately where I lie within that. If I have 10 plus years of experience in the industry then I would expect to be on the high end of that salary band, if you as a manager disagree, then that’s something we’re going to have a talk about right now.

Have you ever managed to get robots? I feel like the managers dream of effective and obedient workers is impossible. It’s like the triangle.

You have competence, cheapness, and honesty, pick 2.

Is the workers being done and they are doing so cheaply then you can guarantee they’re either stealing from you or would be perfectly happy to take bribes.

If you’ve got an honest effective workforce then you’re going to have to pay for it.

And if you’ve got a cheap and honest workforce they are absolutely not doing the job correctly (and you’re probably hiring consultants from Bangladesh or something)

Oh yes because who doesn’t talk about pay during the in the interview process.

I just want to know how you fall in a porta potty. Like how is that a possible thing to happen?

I’m confused who the democrats are actually performing for. They have to know that at the next election the republicans are going to get steamrollered and if they play their cards right they can come out on top.

Yet they do stuff like this, as if they’re trying to pander to MAGAs, as if that’s all help their electoral chances.

Yeah but you gave back James Corden so you owe us one.

What an insane position for them to take. It isn’t the US there was more than two parties. Hell they can see that because they’re talking about reform.

Just tell them to vote Green. Or maybe Labour if they get their act together over the next few years. There’s always the possibility that Burnham will be in charge by that point.